Diabetes Ii Treatment
The most common disorder of the nerves in type 1 and type 2 diabetes is the disorder of sensation. Nerve disease where the nerves are involved, is called Diffuse neuropathy and is the most common form of diabetic neuropathy. Distal refers to the distance from the center of your body, so neuropathy distal is a disease of nerves in your hands and feet.
Signs of neuropathy include distal:
- decreased how to feel yet light touch, or even the position of your foot
- inability to feel pain or temperature
- tingling and burning sensation
- extreme sensitivity to touch
- any weakness
- symptoms feel worse during night
The danger is that you do not know without looking whether or not an injury to your feet. And this could be any any trauma, such as standing on a rough stone or a piece of glass. Often, you do not know that you have this problem, you lost the feeling in your feet … it is usually made in the nerve conduction studies.
Neuropathic foot ulcers are the most serious complication of loss of sensation in your feet.
At the Wound Care and Rehabilitation Medicine Center in Philadelphia, the goal of all health care professionals is to get patients back to normal to operate at full with wounds completely healed as quickly as possible.
Robert Goldman, MD is no exception. He began noting the positive effects of wound healing by using hyperbaric oxygen therapy and decided to investigate further.
You may be unfamiliar with hyperbaric oxygen therapy … it takes place in a closed unit, somewhat similar in appearance to a room of MRI, but with a clear coating, where the patient is fully closed. Inside this room is a level of more oxygen the concentration in air.
Michael Jackson was known for his use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy. When he had to deal with severe burns to his head, he received this therapy and that is the main reason for the burns healed so quickly.
Many infections do not heal because they are caused by anaerobic bacteria, which is bacteria that grows in an environment without oxygen. When this bacterium is then exposed to oxygen levels higher than normal wounds heal very quickly.
The Dr. Goldman has made a review of the literature and found that the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in diabetics suffering from ulcers foot infection complicated by surgery went well … it clearly reduces the chances of amputation.
If you're in a situation where treatment does not seem to heal your foot ulcer, please keep this in mind:
- 70% fewer amputations were performed in 2003 on people with diabetes, according to the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- with proper care amputations can be avoided
- Ask your doctor you receiving about hyperbaric oxygen therapy
The key to preventing and treating neuropathy is to get your type 2 diabetes under control.
A healthy eating plan and exercise can be very powerful. At California’s Weimar Institute of Health and Education, twenty-one patients with peripheral neuropathy did two things, followed a healthy diabetic eating plan and took daily thirty minute walks. Within two weeks, legs pain stopped completely in seventeen of these patients, and the remaining four had some relief.
If you would like to download a free copy of my E-Book, click here now: Answers to Your Questions … its based on questions diabetics have asked me over the last few months.
Beverleigh Piepers is a registered nurse who would like to help you understand how to live easily and happily with your type 2 diabetes.
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